05 Aug 1854
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1854
Page
1
Advertisement rates for notices in Bristol include two dollars per column inch and advances required. Space charges cover weekly ten line blocks with yearly rates and exclusions for obituaries and political notices. The item lists contact details and publication terms for Preston PMENEX and Bayley offered in town.
A fragment from the Albany Argus recounts 1775 British camp life on the Hudson under Abercrombie. It describes how militia levies, armed and marching, impressed with regimental songs, including a tale of Dr. Shackburg composing Yankee Doodle. The piece paints camp scenes with Washington on a stallion, parade maneuvers, and humorous notes on pancakes, onions, and lassies cakes among recruits.
A Hogansville Iowa letter from July 17 notes Minnesota land bill passage boosting road building from Lake Sugar by St Paul to the state north line. It reports 50 percent population rise in a year, emigration, harvest beginning, thriving crops, a new church, a successful Sunday school with 80 scholars, and plans for railroad construction next fall.
A birthday excursion climbs the 43Re feet tower of St Rrephot in Vienna to view the Cathedral bell weighing 35,400 pounds the largest in Germany. A 1400 pound clapper was cast in 1711 by Beopatar Joseph from Turkish cannon. A fire watchman operates from a lookout at 250 pounds, using a telescope and chart to locate streets and houses for alarms.
A lengthy vignette argues that free education and a cheap press spur intelligence and social advancement in the United States. It contrasts liberal press freedoms with Prussia’s restrictions, claiming universal access fosters invention, shared knowledge, and improved living standards across society.
A humorous quotation from Jichol's Journal argues that a law banning frying pans would reform public health by reducing doctors and drug use. It mocks frying as unhealthy and urges boiled or roasted foods to spare the stomach and extend life.
The famous surgeon John Hunter visits the witty actor Foote who jokes he would have broken his neck following his prescription after Foote admits he discarded it from a three story window. Dion'r Fonton Jr. is referenced in a fragmentary quotation.
In a remote New Hampshire township a minister newly moved from Massachusetts discovers a tale of limited comforts. A farmer visiting the minister sits in a doorway chair to avoid treading on a blanket, explaining his reluctance to spoil a cherished piece of bedding.
A fragment notes two Irish prisoners one jailed for stealing a cow and another for a watch. The cow stealer jokes about meeting time with his watch, reflecting on morality and restraint amid crime.
The narrative follows Harvey Loomis and Joseph Collins as they reunite with Lucy Loomis after a perilous wartime voyage. A parrot’s cry triggers a prayerful pause at home, and the tale shifts to a veteran recounting a sea ordeal involving the schooner Good-speed, a Spanish saboteur, imprisonment, and a return to the family in Connecticut.
A Philadelphia Daily Extinguisher collector accosts a hard of hearing man and demands payment on a bill. The debtor refuses to endorse or pay, citing money not advancing, and the collector is forced to withdraw, noting the difficulty of collecting from strangers.
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